Growing up in Birmingham Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When t..

Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..

It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..

On her deathbed Lucy Fallow’s mother makes her promise to look after her younger siblings and keep..

It's Christmas Eve 1920 when Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart. Leaving everything she's ever know..

1938 Britain and Germany are on the brink of war and tension and fear is felt throughout Europe. In ..

Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah Scrase and her widowed mother Ellen to enter the notorious ..

Polly living in grinding poverty loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the stree..

When 16-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast she is terrified by what lies ahead o..

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital o..

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London’s East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destr..

As the Japanese begin their assault on Singapore Sarah Fuller and her sister Jane are forced to leav..

Hetty Gilbert is a canal child with no permanent address so when she needs to join the library she c..

Laura Collins is struggling to make a good life for her daughters Tess and Tina. So when she is offe..